I've never seen anything like that. When I need to do this sort of thing, I generally do it with Offset and other tools. Too often I find there are places that require more knowledge and decision making than could be included in a script. There is an old G-code extension that draws tool paths that could be used to get you started with a template but Offset doesn't require all the data input.

If the size of the pattern fits within the printable margins of the paper, it is possible to get it printed on a single sheet. You need to adjust the proportions of the drawing window to be close to the printable area of the paper and then use Parallel Projection, a standard view showing the pattern and Zoom Extents to fill the drawing space with the model. Have a look at the video here.

@stefanq said: I suspect Solo to be a gamer who spam this forum, for awhile. Now I'm sure! Not a single game on any of my machines, who has time to play?

Perhaps he is using AutoDesk's free Skp to Dwg AutoCAD plugin.

its quite nice, only issue is that I cant draw it wherever I want. It forces me to draw on empty space on different plane. Otherwise nice.thanks

The more times you click the green button the smoother the geometry becomes. [image: DKyF_Subd.gif]

This is a problem with Vray. You should be asking on the Vray forum or better, contact their customer support people.

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Good one!

This looks like it may be a VRAY related problem. Uninstall VRAY from SU and see if this resolves the problem.

hmm - strange indeed is it possible to share a small part of your model (containing landscape, one building etc.) here? Just for testing this issue of course....

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Thanks for this reply. I will have to play about with proxies in my next model. It's not something I've done before. I've tended to go the route so far of having complex plants, etc. on a layer I open only when looking at or rendering a particular scene. I am no expert, so I'm unsure if that keeps the SU model as light and maneuverable, (with the layer(s) switched off) as having proxies in place. @hornoxx said: Hi Gary and Pixero I´m using Shaderlight as my main render tool but unfortunately it is not able to handle Skatter files so far. I hope that this will change, sometime As long, as Pixero´s DIY Hedges are finished SU files which no longer need any connection to Skatter itself in the background, Shaderlight will be able to render these. Shaderlight's "Replace Me Creator" works fine which makes it possible at least to replace complex geometry by lightweight proxy geometry within SketchUp as seen in this linked example http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40%26amp;t=67665#p620146 Anyway you will probably have to adjust the used textures within Shaderlight´s material presets, so that these present the desired render result. @ Pixero: if possible Gary and I could make a little Shaderlight testing using a small sample file from you? Best

@unknownuser said: I try to reason how this works but it doesn't come easy to me. It isn't easy. there are a few bugs to get your head around. Perhaps it's helpful to understand that the dynamic part is a ruby script add on, it's not hard wired and as such has to work within the limitations of the ruby language and the developer's understanding when it was conceived. There are disconnections between what an attribute reports and the updated SU view, for example changing the rotation attribute will cancel out a previous input in any one of the others. Rotations involving groups can affect the size, the change seems to follow the changing boundary box. Components seem to be more stable, but again misbehave when more than one axis is considered, Despite the updates in Ruby there seems to be little done to fix these bugs, however there are workarounds to achieve the results you require. The first important point, I would like you accept is that all onclicks need to be on the same level of nesting, there's no point placing an onclick event in a lower nesting than the other. I generally use nested groups only for parts of an object, like an "I beam" made of top flange, web and bottom flange. Then the object (I beam), the sum of its parts, is then a component. Collections of components may be then held in a group. So the second is that using dynamic groups can be more problematic, unless they are simple So any animated object(s) should be a component and it is better to nest animated component(s) within another component, otherwise the rotation formula can be overridden when swapped or inserted. At this point you may need to understand why attributes can be overridden, if they were not, then swapping a mouse with a elephant would mean their sizes would always match, etc. However you can match them, if the values are passed one level down and "current" is used in the parent if you want to, say have beam lengths to always match after a swap. I am still trying to rationalise DCs intricacies myself. so most times I plug in data / methods until it works Anyway, feel free to add any more problems, then can add some more observations

You can use the factor 1000 and model without units in m (model settings), no calculations needed.

My trial is expiring so I just put a post in their forum about my experience during the trial. You can view it here: Simlab Trial

Normal maps are not supported by SketchUp.

You have to update your scenes. If a section plane is visble when you create a scene it will remain visible in that seen even if you hide the section plane. You need to hide it and then update the scene.